Christiane Amanpour Back to CNN?

“This Week” anchor Christiane Amanpour isn’t getting along with the bosses at ABC News, and has reached out to the honchos at CNN to return to the network where she started her career. Sources tell us award-winning Amanpour has been “miserable” anchoring the weekly political talk show and contacted Turner CEO Phil Kent about getting back to reporting on her passion — international affairs. “The courtship began over the summer when Phil first got wind that all was not well with her over there,” a source said. “Both sides regretted her leaving.” Sources say Amanpour has butted heads with executive producer Rick Kaplan and ABC News president Ben Sherwood. “It’s a problem,” a source said. “Rick is trying to guide the show, but she doesn’t want to hear it.” An ABC rep said, “I just got off the phone with Christiane, she says that’s total nonsense. She’s very happy at ABC News. She’s not going anywhere. She’s had the most extraordinary year. She’s a critical, essential voice.” A CNN rep declined to comment on “speculation.”

Share this:

Like this:

LikeLoading...

Related

This entry was posted on October 26, 2011 at 5:56 am and is filed under CNN . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Maybe she can bring some credibility back to CNN primetime. Just a thought. When CNN relies on a giggling daytime talk show host and a reality show judge for primetime, something ain’t right with the universe.

The square peg got forced into a round hole to host Sunday’s THIS WEEK. She has no gravitas in matters political, and it shows. Tapper is made for the show, and she must know so many of us want him in and her out.

Makes sense, as she should’ve been on Nightline instead. She’s completely miscast for her ABC role. On top of it, you get a sense that ABC can’t afford to use her right only keeping her in studio as an analysis, and she can’t do what she did on CNN. CNN should’ve forked over the money to keep her there. The network needs a well known corespondent to keep it’s global news pedigree. If CNN was smart it would start hiring people they need to be the “Down the middle” hard news model that they have been boxed into.